MovieID
This is one a few apps I wish I had maintained. I had a good reason for abandoning it; it didn't die of disinterest. It was unavoidable, unfortunately. Anyway.
The app served two important purpose for me.
1. When I've got a "thing" in
Topic
tech
A collection of 171 posts
Hosting an AASA File on Your Ghost Blog
I recently started blogging again after a long hiatus. The only things I really cared about were:
1. I need to be able to self-host it.
2. It needs to not be WordPress.
And so I discovered Ghost, which has been mostly great. The lack of a user interface for
App Development Drudgery (App Icons)
The problem here is not the tools; it's the fact that the tools are necessary at all. I get that there are some artists who want to tweak their app icon at each of the required three million different resolutions, but for the rest of us, I just
Programming & Parenting
It is particularly convenient during the several months when the baby can't squirm, roll, crawl, etc. After that, it is nearly impossible to get any work done. It remains fun to try though.
Coincidentally, just shy of four months old, the baby rolled over during the night. I
App Development Drudgery (App Store Screenshots)
One of the key elements of effectively getting folks to try out your app is also one of the most obnoxious and annoying requirements for app development: app store screenshots.
I entirely dislike putting together app store screenshots. And once you're done, you have to it all over
Unintended Consequences of Technology
When I was a teenager and into my early 20s, I had a large spiral bound map book in the back pocket of the driver's seat in my car. I didn't have to use it often though. The rare trip to a new location was just
Migrating from Blogger to Ghost
Blogger (and blogging in general) may not be The Big Thing these days, but I still kind of expected Ghost would support migrating one’s old blog over.
I did some digging. The most popular migration method is to: (1) export your Blogger posts to JSON, (2) import into WordPress,
SwiftUI: Does it [Still] Suck?
I used HyperCard in the late-80s and early-90s to make some fun applications and animations. It still amazes me that Myst was implemented in HyperCard. As kids, we did more with HyperCard than I've ever seen kids doing these days.
I used Gtk with Perl to craft some
My Dot Com
Years ago I looked at curtisjones.com and saw that it was for sale. That might be fun to own. According to the Wayback Machine, it had been used for precisely nothing its entire existence, which was a little sad, and a lot fortuitous.
The domain reseller follows up with
YouTube Ingest by Hand (Part 6)
Google just replied to (and closed) my ticket regarding MPEG-DASH. Apparently they cannot provide any examples of their ingest actually working. "Go ask StackOverflow." Very cringe.
Anyway ... on to HLS now.
Question 1: Can I use AVAssetWriter to write the MPEG-TS stream? The answer seems to be "